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Hey everyone,

I was looking at creating I genestealer cult themed list later this year. As I haven't bought any models yet any suggestions would be welcome. The idea of the army would be a Cult uprising right before or during the attack of the main hive fleet.

Here is a link to the list discussion thread... http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/298903.page

Warrior Alpha - the metal Broodlord Fig with a pair of those resin boneswords people have been showing off locally. Or with the reversed scything talons that people have been using as boneswords.
Hiveguard - massive genestealer hybrids wielding bioweapons. I'm initially thinking Ogre models converted up with carnifex weapons and genestealer bits.
Ymgarl - Out of normal "cthulhu" genestealers
Genestealers - I was debating between using all actual stealer models or using hybrids with a few "purestrain" genestealers mixed in. If I did this the Termagaunts would definitely have to be fairly "mundane" cultists with shotguns or rifles.
Termagaunts - genestealer hybrids with rifles or just normal cultists with shotguns. Built out of the empire militia box and guardsmen boxes.
Tervigon - not a clue what to do.
Tyranofex's I was thinking of converting something like an "infested" sentinel walker using carni and genestealer bits.


Has anyone done anything like this or similar?

I'm a fan of termagants being modelled as human cultists with bioweapon 'parasites' on their arms - seems fluffy and easy to model, and not too expensive so long as you can get some spare bioweapons.

After talking to some people about it I am thinking of modeling up the Tervigon as the Tyranid equivalent of Devastator.




Using a Carnifex's body and a Mawloc's head I'll model a huge gaping jaw that is swallowing imperial guardsmen/civilians.

Once they've been swallowed their subject to all manner of nasty viruses and mutanagenic compounds. When they come out the otherside they are mutated to high heaven and tied into the hive mind.

Probably drill into his chest cavity and create a hole where the chest plates would be and model it up something like the sarlacc pit.



Then of course give the whole model a Genestealer feel by adding carapace plates and the like.

Nice idea of huge hybrids for Hive Guard.

I'm actually using a Tervigon as my stand-in for a Genestealer Magus (no pics yet though). I'll stand a Magus on a carriage built from either a Screaming Bell or Corpse Cart, and the spawning rules will represent faithful cultists jumping out from the cart/nearby ruins as they hear the bell toll.